Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Seward County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Liberal, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDDC 120030 SVRDDC KSC175-120115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 730 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SEWARD COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL...STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST SEWARD COUNTY THROUGH 815 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING... HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS... DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR... AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR OTHER ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE LIGHTNING IS IN THE AREA. LAT...LON 3703 10079 3700 10064 3714 10065 3714 10079 REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 7:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Grant | 118 min |
| Jul 12, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.